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Our research team sampled honey bee colonies placed in crops located across 5 provinces in Canada. A big shout-out to the massive efforts by Ida Conflitti as Project Manager and Mateus Pepinelli as Lab Manager! Amro Zayed Leonard Foster BeeCSI BeesYU

Amro Zayed Leonard Foster BeeCSI BeesYU We found that exposure to crops increases the complexity of stressor networks, meaning more stressors and potential stressor interactions Amro Zayed Leonard Foster BeeCSI BeesYU

Amro Zayed Leonard Foster BeeCSI BeesYU But networks of stressors varied substantially across crops and regions. For example, this cranberry network had way more stressors and potential interactions than lowbush blueberry Amro Zayed Leonard Foster BeeCSI BeesYU

Amro Zayed Leonard Foster BeeCSI BeesYU Pesticides, viruses, Varroa, European Foulbrood, and Nosema could be found in the same colony at the same time. Honey bees therefore need crop- and region-specific strategies using a multiple-stressor framework to manage risk Aidan Jamieson Amro Zayed Leonard Foster BeeCSI BeesYU

Enjoying spring beekeeping… this colony is off to great start

What a fantastic departmental seminar on coral biology, genomics and conservation by Dr. Crawford Drury from Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology ‘s Coral Resilience Lab lab. later… Ford exchanged his wetsuit for a beesuit! 🙌

Celebrating Dr. Halima Hami’s last day at the lab. She came, she saw, she sequenced! 🐝🐝🐝💪We will miss you Halima! C’est la bee!

And so Mariana RL ‘s watch begins 😂

Have you registered for the BEEc Speaker Series yet? Join us this Friday (September 13th) for a talk by Adam Dolezal, register here: yorku.ca/bees/speaker-s…

What an excellent day hosting ON Colleges, Universities, Research & Security and York U Research & Innovation at our new research apiary. ❤️ 🍯🐝 BeesYU

Also, everything is awesome, when you have this team ❤️🙏🏻🙌 Katie Dogantzis Aidan Jamieson Dova Suttner Mariana RL Sarah French @skfrench.bsky.social (and Lewis, Judy, Maria, Darya, Aishu and Tanu)

It was so amazing to see ash the scientist ✨ totally crush her MSc defence on genetics of the honeybee’s microbiome today! Well done Aishu!

BeeWare 😂 ash the scientist ✨ strikes again 😭

Queen Stella Bee and I really enjoying Dr Kit Prendergast ‘s opening talk at #beecon2024 this year. Yay! BeesYU

Awesome #beecon2024 keynote by Chelsea Cook on how and why honeybees fan! (I am also major #fanboying Chelsea awesome research program)

Hot off the press BeeCSI : Pollen foraging mediates exposure to dichotomous stressor syndromes in honey bees academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti… BeesYU Genome Canada Ontario Genomics YorkU - Science

A study of 456 Canadian honey bee colonies reveals how pollen foraging preferences shape bees’ exposure to stressors. Bees who forage in crops are exposed to neonicotinoids. Bees who forage in more diverse areas are exposed to pathogens. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/VY7C50TZgG8

Wow, Pacita Abad’s coral reef artwork at the Ontario Art Gallery was just amazing (her other pieces are amazing too but I really connected with the reefs)